Towards a people's recovery
The latest briefing by the Financial Transparency Coalition tracks fiscal and social protection responses to Covid-19 in the global south.
The FTC Tracker Report and partners analysed data from a total of nine countries: Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The report found a staggering 63 percent of pandemic-related funds went on average to big businesses in eight of the nine surveyed countries, while only a quarter of the funds went to social protection.